Everything We Know about Long COVID

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

While COVID caseloads are decreasing in many parts of the United States, many people who have been afflicted throughout the past two years of the pandemic are still suffering with what is commonly called "Long COVID." COVID-19 isn't the first virus to cause long-term illness, but Andy digs into what we know — and don't know — about these lingering symptoms. In Andy's conversation with two experts — Yale's Akiko Iswasaki and Mount Sinai's David Putrino — we'll learn more about hypotheses for why certain people don’t recover fully from the virus, how Long COVID differs from a lingering infection, and what rehabilitation techniques seem to be working best.

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Read the White House’s memorandum on Long COVID: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/05/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-accelerates-whole-of-government-effort-to-prevent-detect-and-treat-long-covid/
Find a Long COVID center near you here: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/13-hospitals-health-systems-that-have-launched-post-covid-19-clinics.html
Find the full stories of the Long COVID patients heard in this episode here: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/18/1056987438/for-some-patients-long-covid-is-their-new-reality and https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/coronavirus/long-covid
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